The term " deed ", also known in this context as a " specialty ", is common to signed written undertakings not supported by consideration: the seal ( even if not a literal wax seal but only a notional one referred to by the execution formula, " signed, sealed and delivered ", or even merely " executed as a deed ") is deemed to be the consideration necessary to support the obligation.

The president sealed his fate by attempting to manipulate the constitution in order to extend his term in office.

The term has been later applied-specifically after the publication of Julius Epstein's eponymous book-to other Allied acts of often forced repatriation of former residents of the USSR after the ending of World War II that sealed the fate of millions of post-war refugees fleeing eastern Europe.

The term black box was first recorded used by the RAF of approximately 1947 to describe the sealed containment used for apparatus of navigation, this usage becoming more widely applied after 1964.

As a shipping container, the word " pail " is a technical term for a bucket shaped package with a sealed top or lid which is used as a shipping container for chemicals and industrial products.

In general usage, the term ' three piece ' refers to the former design, with sealed bottom brackets being seen as the ' standard '.

The situation changed when the border was sealed in August 1961, and five months later the government announced a mandatory service term of 18 months for men.

The diplomatic revolution of 1756, sealed in 1770 with the personal union ( the diplomatic term for marriage ) of Louis, the Dauphin of Viennois, and the Austrian Archduchess Marie Antoinette, was considered both a political and matrimonial mésalliance in the eyes of many Frenchmen.

Some believe that the wildly unpopular " no-pass, no-play " policies of the White administration, which prohibited any high school student athletes from participating in varsity sports if they were failing any single element of their overall class load, sealed the doom of a second term.

The word follis means bag ( usually made of leather ) in latin, and there is evidence that this term was used in antiquity for a sealed bag containing a specific amount of coins.

In recent years, the term gashapon has also come to refer to " blind-box " trading figures, which are essentially the same product sold randomly out of sealed packages instead of a machine.

In " To Number Our Days " published in 1964, after viewing the plight of Blacks in Atlanta and after discussing President Franklin Roosevelt sympathetically as introducing " creeping socialism " ( in the context as that term was understood in 1964 ), he notes that he made a prediction sealed in a vault at Oglethorpe University in 1942: " My prediction ran this way :... In AD 2042 when Oglethorpe's vault is opened, there will be a socialist president in Washington.

The use of such sealed containers in the Hermetic arts led to the term " hermetically sealed ".

" The term has its origins back to 1924 when the National Biscuit Company ( Nabisco ) introduced a snack, put in a 5-cent sealed packet called " Peanut Sandwich Packet ".

The term abugida was suggested by Peter T. Daniels in his 1990 typology of writing systems.

The term analog signal usually refers to electrical signals ; however, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and other systems may also convey analog signals.

For example, the term is used to describe systems such as verlan and louchébem, which retain French syntax and apply transformations only to individual words ( and often only to a certain subset of words, such as nouns, or semantic content words ).

However the term is used more commonly for systems designed to counter intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ).

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

Later, many AMPS networks were partially converted to D-AMPS, often referred to as TDMA ( though TDMA is a generic term that applies to many cellular systems ).

In byte-oriented systems ( i. e. most modern computers ), the term uncompressed BCD usually implies a full byte for each digit ( often including a sign ), whereas packed BCD typically encodes two decimal digits within a single byte by taking advantage of the fact that four bits are enough to represent the range 0 to 9.

Kernighan's term is used to indicate that WYSIWYG systems might throw away information in a document that could be useful in other contexts.

Building on the recognition of the importance of information transmission, accumulation and processing in biological systems, in 1978 Paulien Hogeweg, coined the term " Bioinformatics " to refer to the study of information processes in biotic systems.

Paulien Hogeweg and Ben Hesper defined the term in 1978 to refer to " the study of information processes in biotic systems ".

However, the distinction between BIOS and EFI is rarely made in terminology by the average computer user, making BIOS a catch-all term for both systems.

In North America, the term " Btu " is used to describe the heat value ( energy content ) of fuels, and also to describe the power of heating and cooling systems, such as furnaces, stoves, barbecue grills, and air conditioners.

The term black people is used in some socially-based systems of racial classification for humans of a dark-skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups represented in a particular social context.

Biotechnology ( see also relatedly bioengineering ) can be a somewhat ambiguous term, sometimes loosely used interchangeably with BME in general ; however, it more typically denotes specific products which use " biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof.

Laissez-faire advocates criticize the term as an ideologically motivated attempt to cast what is in their view the fundamental problem of government intervention or “ investments ” as an avoidable aberration ; free-market advocates refer to governmental favoritism as " crony socialism ", " venture socialism " or " corporatism, a modern form of mercantilism " to emphasize that the only way to run a profitable business in such systems is to have help from corrupt government officials.

Ulric Neisser coined the term " cognitive psychology " in his book Cognitive Psychology, published in 1967 wherein Neisser provides a definition of cognitive psychology characterizing people as dynamic information-processing systems whose mental operations might be described in computational terms.

The term evolved to distinguish such systems from the microscopic " assemblers " that nanotechnology may make possible.

The term primary memory is used for the information in physical systems which are fast ( i. e. RAM ), as a distinction from secondary memory, which are physical devices for program and data storage which are slow to access but offer higher memory capacity.

The term time-sharing is no longer commonly used, having been replaced by simply multitasking, and by the advent of personal computers and workstations rather than shared interactive systems.

In a review of social stratification systems in Africa, Richter reports that the term caste has been used by French and American scholars to many groups of West African artisans.

Now ubiquitous, in current usage the term " cyberspace " stands for the global network of interdependent information technology infrastructures, telecommunications networks and computer processing systems.

The term originates from the ( dēmokratía ) " rule of the people ", which was coined from δῆμος ( dêmos ) " people " and κράτος ( kratos ) " power ", around 400 BCE, to denote the political systems then existing in Greek city-states, notably Athens.

The term represented a contrast with the tape-based systems of the past, allowing shared interactive use rather than daily batch processing.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.

The term enquetes demographiques, previously used for the supplementary investigations carried out in connection with the administrative censuses, was used for the new investigations.

This term was also used by the cowboy in the sense of a human showin' fight, as one cowhand was heard to say, `` He arches his back like a mule in a hailstorm ''.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

Engages must be loyal to the concessionaires, and must serve until the term provided in the engagement was ended.

The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible `` irregularities '' in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr..

When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.

Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.

Friday afternoon the Rev. T. F. Zimmerman was reelected for his second consecutive two-year term as general superintendent of Assemblies of God.

Commenting on the earlier stage, the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors ( in a recent report on the question of faculty participation in administrative decision-making ) noted that the term `` teacher-employee '' ( as opposed to, e.g., `` maintenance employee '' ) was a not inapt description.

The Unitarian clergy were an exclusive club of cultivated gentlemen -- as the term was then understood in the Back Bay -- and Parker was definitely not a gentleman, either in theology or in manners.

or `` Carmine Theater, 1912 '', the only canvas with an ash can ( and foraging dog ), although Sloan was a member of the famous `` Eight '', and of the so-called `` Ash-Can School '', a term he resented.

The term was introduced into optics by Johann Heinrich Lambert in his 1760 work Photometria.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.